oce (version 0.1.69)

a03: WOCE section a03

Description

This is line A03 (ExpoCode 90CT40_1, with nominal sampling date 1993-09-11). The chief scientist was Tereschenkov of SOI, working aboard the Russian ship Multanovsky, undertaking a westward transect from the Mediterranean outflow region across to North America, with a change of heading in the last few dozen stations to run across the nominal Gulf Stream axis.

Usage

data(a03)

source

http://cchdo.ucsd.edu/data_access?ExpoCode=90CT40_1 (use the BOT link in the Exchange section of this page.)

References

http://cchdo.ucsd.edu

See Also

This was read with read.section(a03_hy1.csv), working a data file downloaded from the CCHDO site mentioned above.

Examples

library(oce)
# Gulf Stream
data(a03)
a03g <- section.grid(a03, p=seq(0,2000,10))
data(coastline.world)
# Select the Gulf Stream region
plot(a03g,station.indices=seq(124,102),coastline=coastline.world,map.xlim=c(-80,-60))